Outstanding Italian Women in the US Series: Paola Prestini
The series continues with Paola Prestini, musician and composer, in conversation with Maria Teresa Cometto. Paola Prestini is “the imaginative composer” (NY Times), “Visionary-In-Chief” (Time Out NY), Co-founder and Artistic director behind the Brooklyn venue National Sawdust. She was recently named an “Innovator” on the list of Top 30 Professionals of the Year by […]
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Roberto Gatto Quartet
Roberto Gatto is one of the few Italian musicians who does not need any introduction: “drummer” of jazz par excellence, he has been an ambassador of Italian jazz in the world since his early career.This year he has been, again, nominated the best Italian drummer by the monthly magazine Jazz it. With this new project, […]
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Exile and Creativity Series: Arturo Toscanini
A conversation between James Conlon and Harvey Sachs. James Conlon is an American conductor of opera, and symphonic and choral works. He is the Music Director of the Los Angeles Opera and Principal Conductor of the Italian RAI National Symphony Orchestra. He was the long serving director of the two-week Cincinnati May Festival from 1979 […]
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Facing the camera – 50 years of Italian portraits
This exhibition chronicles fifty years of Italian history showcasing a series of portraits, by 25 photographers, in which stories, identities and heritage are narrated by the looks of the subjects, eyes staring directly at the camera, at the authors of the shots and, ultimately, at all of us. Curated by M. Delogu. Italy is […]
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Outstanding Italian Women Series – Cecilia Alemani
The second talk of the series is with Cecilia Alemani, in conversation with Maria Teresa Cometto Cecilia Alemani is the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the non-profit organization Friends of the High Line in New York City. She was, also, the curator of […]
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Book presentation: Everything Is Broken Up and Dances
A conversation with Edoardo Nesi author, along with Guido Maria Brera, of Everything Is Broken Up and Dances – The Crushing of the Middle Class, (translation by Antony Shugaar) and John Jeremiah Sullivan. This volume is a clear, engaging dialogue that explains how the role of economics and finance in the West has shifted in […]
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Studying Survival in the Context of Persecution
Groundbreaking research project opens new avenues to understand survival. During the past ten years, historian Liliana Picciotto has lead a groundbreaking research project at the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan: the development of a database of case-studies to analyze the ways in which Jews survived in Italy during the Fascist and Nazi persecution. […]
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Book Presentation: Paolo Cognetti and Edmund White
On the occasion of the publication in the U.S. of his first novel Le Otto Montagne – The Eight Mountains, translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell, Simon&Schuster, 2018 Paolo Cognetti in conversation with Edmund White. Paolo Cognetti, an Italian writer and essayist born in Milan in 1978, divides his time between the city […]
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International Women’s Day with Erica Jong
An evening talk with internationally acclaimed author Erica Jong, on her experience as a woman writer but also on her special relationship to Italy and Italian culture. Jong will be in conversation with journalist Maria Teresa Cometto. Born and raised in New York, where she graduated in English literature at Columbia University, Erica Jong, born […]
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Figura Schroeder Duo
Antonio and Dave first met in 2015 during a Jazz Festival in Italy, and they have played together several times, since. In this occasion they will perform, for the first time, their latest compositions, to be included in the duo CD project that will be recorded in New York City on March 9 and 10 […]
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